Exhibitions

KINGS OF THE WORLD : ART AND ROYAL POWER IN MASTERPIECES FROM THE AL THANI COLLECTION

Head curator of exhibition : Vincent Droguet, general curator of patrimony, director of patrimony and collections at the Château de Fontainebleau
Scenography : Agence Graf

Since high antiquity, the role of the king has been depicted in numerous and highly codified ways. The ways that the royal image is diffused reveals the struggles for power, schemas of thought and ambitions of a whole society. Royal iconography is often fueled by an association with sacredness, but in the East as well as the West, the king is (...)